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MR. JAMES EDMUND HARTING, who died on Jan. 16, was the son of a Roman Catholic solicitor and was born in 1844 in Chelsea. He was educated at Downside College and, after taking his B.A. at the University of London, he joined his father's firm and practised for some years as a solicitor. Always attracted to natural history, he continued his observations of Nature, more especially of bird-life, in and around London, and one of his earliest papers, “A list of Waders that have appeared at Kingsbury Reservoir in 1863,” appeared in the Zoologist for that year. From this time onwards, Nature articles from his pen appeared regularly in the Field, the Sussex Zoologist, the Middlesex Zoologist, and in many other journals, but the great maj ority were written for the Zoologist, and in 1877 he became the editor of this journal, a position he retained until 1896. From 1871 he was naturalist editor of the Field, and later shooting editor also. On the opening of the Natural History Museum at South Kensington he was appointed to form the zoological library, and the zeal and energy with which he worked is attested by the magnificent collection of books now in the Museum available for reference.
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Mr. J. E. Harting. Nature 121, 251 (1928). https://doi.org/10.1038/121251a0
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